Posts Tagged ‘Game Of Death’

Phil G talks to Steve Kerridge who has over 40 years of experience in training and teaching in martial arts, is a Black belt and the founder of Essex Kickboxing Academy. He is also the highly regarded author of many publications on the legend that is Bruce Lee including Legends Of The Dragon and Mandarin Superstar. Steve talks of inspirations for the books and tells the tale of Bruce Lee making The Big Boss and how he picked up the trail of the featured Thai stuntmen in the film.

In the wake of Bruce Lee’s death, there was popularity at its peak and savvy producers, high profile or not, started to exploit the image of him by casting other people looking semi to not similiar at all. Hence your Bruce Le’s, Li’s, Dragon Lee and so forth. When Golden Harvest decided to try and structure a movie around Bruce’s unfinished movie Game Of Death, the result was big and high profile and find out in this episode how this attempt at honoring the late great Lee fares as several actors playing Lee (along with footage from elsewhere) gather for 1978’s Game Of Death. With Kenny B and East Screen West Screen‘s Paul Fox.

The next Cast From The Past (a series of shows lost from our iTunes feed and website) from 2008 features Stoo and Kenny B. Talking last movies watched (including a duo of Mamoru Oshii films and Battle Of Wits), rest of the show is dedicated to the review of Justin Lin’s mockumentary Finishing The Game and questions about the right’s and wrong’s regarding Bruceploitation.

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